[arch-dev-public] Arch Monthly Report - November

[Allan McRae]

On 1/12/21 08:33, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public wrote:
> On 11/18/21 03:19, Allan McRae via arch-dev-public wrote:
>> On 18/11/21 00:08, Levente Polyak via arch-dev-public wrote:
>>> The idea so far was to release LTO in a second iteration as some 
>>> concerns were raised to do both set of changes at the very same time.
>>
>> My concerns about this are rather limited, as other distros use many 
>> (all?) of the new build flags and LTO.  And compiler/linker errors 
>> should make it clear which is the issue.
>>
> 
> Applied LTO default option as well as it indeed should be rather easy to 
> spot and especially easy to disable via a simple !lto option.
> 
> devtools released as 20211129-1 and currently sitting in [staging] so we 
> have a package ready purely for toying around. It will be moved to 
> [testing] once the python 3.10 rebuild is finished to avoid interfering 
> with an already cumbersome huge rebuild (there are rebuilder hosts that 
> have testing enabled and we don't want them to pick up the new flags yet).
> 
>>
>> Is there plans for a distro-wide rebuild to get the benefits of the 
>> added flags, and bulk fix any issues?
>>
> Yes, the idea is to get some testing for a limited amount of time via 
> [testing] and once moved start a huge rebuild.

Great - I am ready to help fix any issues that appear due to these changes.

A distro-wide rebuild will also put us in a good position to start 
thinking about how to implement the x86_64_v3 port.

Allan